These Tweets About Donald Trump's Christmas Mar-a-Lago Trip Are Seriously Calling Him Out

On Friday, Dec. 22, the president left for his holiday break to finish out what's amounted to a roller-coaster of a year. But critics on social media aren't letting him jet off to his Florida resort so easily. Tweets about Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago trip for Christmas have been calling out the president's latest vacation.

"Per pool, Trump has arrived at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida," tweeted MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin. "This is his 107th day at a Trump property as president."

Part of the pushback, almost certainly, is timing. Before leaving Washington D.C., the president signed the hugely unpopular Republican tax bill into law, calling his financial stakes into question. But users were also calling out the president on the sheer number of vacations he's taken to the Palm Beach golf club — or anywhere else, for that matter — and how much it's costing taxpayers.

Though Trump once criticized Obama for taking a Christmas vacation, as Newsweek points out, the current president is doing just that. "Pres. Obama is about to embark on a 17 day vacation in his ‘native’ Hawaii, putting Secret Service away from families on Christmas. Aloha!" wrote Trump in a Dec. 2013 tweet. The sentiment is coming full circle as Trump has arrived in Florida for his end-of-year getaway.

He left the press high and dry.

"Trump leaves for Mar-a-Lago without holding an end-of-the-year press conference, breaking a tradition set by recent presidents," Griffin wrote in another tweet. "Trump has had just one official solo press conference this year. That was on February 16."

Dude likes his golf. A lot.

"Today when Trump arrives at Mar-a-Lago, he will have officially spent over 20% of his presidency at his golf courses, wasting $91,655,424 in taxpayer dollars on his travels to them," tweeted Scott Dworkin, co-founder of The Democratic Coalition.

The cost of operating aircraft is a huge chunk of the overall bill, which is more or less a fixed variable, and Obama's trips also came with big price tags. But Trump has taken far more trips than his predecessor in his first year in office.

To add to the irony, people were speculating that the president might actually sign the bill from his resort. That didn't come to pass, but the symbolism of his vacation apparently still did.

"Someone in the WH figured out that a tax bill that heavily favors the plutocracy probably shouldn’t be signed at Mar-a-Lago," wrote David Alexrod, former senior adviser to President Obama, on Twitter.

I'm no expert in presidential PR, but I can only imagine it's not great optics to sign a tax bill and then dip out for your vacay. But that's just one person's opinion.